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February 4th
1789 ~ George Washington was unanimously elected by the Electoral College to be the first President of the United States.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama the Confederate States of America was formed by delegates from six break-away United States.
1894 ~ Death of Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone.
1902 ~ Birthday of Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator.
1913 ~ Birthday of Rosa Parks, U.S. civil rights activist.
1928 ~ Death of Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate.
1974 ~ The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1987 ~ Death of Liberace, "Mr. Showmanship".
1997 ~ O. J. Simpson was found to be civilly liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1998 ~ A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit northeast Afghanistan, killing an estimated 5,000 people.
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February 5th
1878 ~ Birthday of André Citroën, automobile pioneer.
1885 ~ The king of Belgium established the Congo as a personal possession.
1897 ~ The Indiana House of Representatives passed a measure redefining the area of a circle and the value of π. The bill died in the state Senate.
1919 ~ Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith created United Artists.
1924 ~ The Royal Greenwich Observatory began to broadcast hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1934 ~ Birthday of Hank Aaron, Athlete.
1958 ~ A hydrogen bomb was lost by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1962 ~ French President Charles De Gaulle called for Algerian independence.
1982 ~ Laker Airways collapsed owing £270 million to banks and other creditors.
1988 ~ Two indictments were unsealed in Florida, accusing Panama's military leader, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, of bribery and drug trafficking.
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February 6th
1564 ~ Birthday of Christopher Marlowe, Playwright.
1819 ~ Sir Thomas Raffles founded Singapore.
1840 ~ Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand.
1895 ~ Birthday of Babe Ruth, Athlete.
1913 ~ Birthday of Mary Leakey, Anthropologist.
1952 ~ The UK’s King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
1959 ~ Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1971 ~ Alan Shepard becomes the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
1993 ~ Death of Arthur Ashe, Athlete.
2004 ~ An explosion in a Moscow subway car during rush hour killed 41 people in a terrorist attack blamed on Chechen separatists.
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February 11th
1650 ~ Death of René Descartes, Philosopher.
1847 ~ Birthday of Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor.
1898 ~ Birthday of Leó Szilárd, Physicist & Peace Activist.
1938 ~ BBC Television produced the first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
1945 ~ President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin signed the Yalta Agreement.
1961 ~ The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem.
1978 ~ China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
1979 ~ Followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, after the religious leader returned to his home after his exile.
1986 ~ Death of Frank Herbert, Science Fiction author.
1990 ~ South African black activist Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.
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February 18th
1546 ~ Death of Martin Luther, religious reformer.
1745 ~ Birthday of Alessandro Volta, Physicist, eponym for the unit of the electric potential.
1838 ~ Birthday of Ernst Mach, Austrian Physicist & Philosopher.
1861 ~ In Montgomery, Alabama Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
1885 ~ Mark Twain's “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was first published.
1930 ~ While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
1933 ~ Birthday of Yoko Ono, Singer, Artist, wife of John Lennon.
1969 ~ Lulu and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marry.
1967 ~ Death of J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
2005 ~ The UK law banning fox hunting, hare coursing and other sports which kill wild mammals is enforced from this date.
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